Stocking guiding device for use with sewing machines



Oct. 6, 1931. H. CORRALL ETAL 1,826,694

STOCKING GUIDING DEVICE FOR USE WITH SEWING I A CHINES Filed Aug. 18, 1927 Patented Get. e, 1193i m art OFFICE HERBERT connALL, or OAKFIELD, HEVLENSBURGH, AND mivins nncein, or CLYDE- BANK,

ELIZABETH, 1 IEVT JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

scnocxiive' summer" DEVICE noausn vvrrn "snwmeMAonnvEs Application filed August 1:5,v 1927, serialiNo. 213,938, and in- Great Britain September 17, 1926; 1

This invention relates to an improved stocking guiding device for use With sewing machines, particularly overhead sewing inachines of the so-called scale-pan type, and aims to provide a construction such that the pivoted guide proper can be set close to the needle so as to insure perfect stitching though free to be swung aside, for instance to receive Work to be stitched.

According tothe inven ion the guide proper, comprising as usual a fiat arm or plate is secured at the end remote from the stitching mechanism to a frame having perforated lugs strung on a vertical pin that also penetrates perforated lugs on a bracket having lugs apertured for penetration by a "vertical spindle sustained by a pedestal or the like,

the lugs on the frame and on the bracket forming in efiect a toggle device, it being un- 'derstood that the described arrangement is such as to permit of endwise bodily movement of the arm or plate as Well as oscillatory movement around a vertical axis. p v

The bracket memberis lnfluencedby a coil spring surrounding the pedestal and urging Tn'the accompanying drawings which i-llustrate a device according to the invention,

Figs. 1 and 2 are elevations at right angles to one another of thestoclring-guide support Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig; 2. Figs. l and 5 are,'respectively, an elevat on and a plan drawn to a smaller scale showing the stocking-guide. proper mounted on the support.

The apparatus shown includes a stocking; guide proper constituted byafiat armor plate 1 secured at oneend to afranie memberQ having perforated lugs 3, tstrungon a vertical pivotal pin 5 penetrating perforated lugs 6, 7 on a'swing bracket 8 having lugs 9, 1O apertured for penetration by a vertical spindle 11 A sustained by a pedestal 12. I

The 'guide-arm 1 is attached to the" frame 2 by clamplng screws l l penetrating aper; tures on the arm and threadedinto th eframe an trating apertures in the arm.

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d pins"15,'16.liXedin the irameaiidfpene- Itvvill be seen that the arrangement:issuch a restricted amount of 'endWise'retract-ed movement of the guidearmis permitted i around the pivotal pin .5 as well asoscilla tory mcvementaround the arms of the spindle Lateral projections 17,18, integralivith the bracket 8, cooperate Witii screw-pins 19, 20, threaded through lugs '21, 22, integral With the frame 2, to restrict endvvis'e retracted I movement of thearm 1.

Q Thesetting ofthe screwspins 19, 20,WlllCl1 are fitted "vvith'nuts 23,2 1, determines the amount of endwise moveme imparted to th' guide arm.

' p .The bracket or controlling member 8,;having the'parallel pivotalconnections 5 andll with the pedestal 12, is influenced by a coilspring anchored at 26 to thep'edestal l2,

and'engaging a pin 27 fixed to the bracket.

at that may be p ""Figs; 4 and 5 show the guide-armin operative position cooperative Withthe usual SGWIIJO rma'chine feed-cupsyZS with its de- 0 Aka e 0 livery end term nating 1' the space intermediate the feed-cups; Tlie'acticn of the coilspring 25 is to hold-theguide-arm in operative position and to return it automatically to-operative position after it hasbeen swung aside to receive Work to be stitched, it being understood that before the guide-arm can' be swung aside into the position, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5 it must be moved'endvvise'to clearthe forward feed-cup 28.

1 Having thus set forth the *na'ture'of the invention,*ivhat We claimherein is:

,1..Incombmatmnfa gu de adapted to receive a tubular article and having a free and unobstructed delivery end, a support,; andv 'fmeans intermediate saidfsupportand theide livery end of the guideadapted to sustain the latter for bodily endWise andsidewise svving- 'ing movement at a substantially constant level.

1 '2. The combination .lfeed-cups, of a stocking uid Comprising. a:

with sewing machine support, a guide-arm mounted on and movable bodily endwise relative to and circularly around said support, said guide having an unobstructed free end terminating closely 5 adjacent said teed-cups.

In combination, a guide adapted to receive a tubular article and having a free and unobs ructed delivery end, a pedestal, a uiein,. er mount d on said pedestal for move- 1 at at a fixed level relative to the latter, a pivotal connection between said membe and guide.

in combinz-ition, a guide adapted to receive a tubular article and having a free and unobstructed delivery end, a pedestal, and a member intermediate said guide and said pedestal having parallel pivotal connections with the guide and pedestal, respectively.

5. The combination with sewing machine feed-cups, of a pedestal, a stocking guide having a free and unobstructed delivery end terminating, when in operative position, in the space intermediate said feed-cups, and a tontrolling member having parallel pivotal roanections with said pedestal and said stocking guide insuring retraction 0i the latter from said space in a direction opposite the direc ion of feed and for movement latits perative position.

6. The combination with sewing machine feed-cups, of a pedestal, a guide adapted to receive a tubular article and having a free and unobstructed delivery end terminating, when in operative position, in the space intel-mediate said feedcups, means intermediate said pedestal and the delivery end of the guide adapted to sustain the latter for bodily wise and sidewise swinging movement at a substantially constant level, and means for 4.0 yieldingly maintaining the delivery end of id guide in operative position intermete said feed-cups.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to his specification.

HERBERT CORRALL.

JAMES HEGGIE. 

